Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103150909010.3383-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Date: 2001-03-15T09:09:29Z
From: Bill Simpson
Subject: get statistics by group
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Yu-Ling Wu wrote:
> Thanks, it's helpful.
> I'm wondering how to make the output look better.
> Right now, I got the output look like this:
>
> =======================================
> $"apple"
> Fruit Quty
> apple : 72 Min. : 12.00
> banana : 0 1st Qu.: 14.00
> orange : 0 Median : 22.00
> cherry : 0 Mean : 25.00
> mengo : 0 3rd Qu.: 42.00
> pineapple : 0 Max. : 70.00
> (Other) : 0
>
>
> $"banana"
> Fruit Quty
> banana : 37 Min. : 10.00
> apple : 0 1st Qu.: 13.00
> orange : 0 Median : 18.00
> cherry : 0 Mean : 19.00
> mengo : 0 3rd Qu.: 32.00
> pineapple : 0 Max. : 65.00
> (Other) : 0
>
> ......and so on........
>
> =======================================
>
>
> How to make it look like below and dilimited by Tab?
>
>
> =======================================
> min max avg median count
> apple 12 70 25 22 72
> banana 10 65 19 18 37
> orange 19 50 27 25 52
>
> ....... and so on........
>
> =======================================
You are aiming pretty high for a newbie!
Do you expect to be able to reformat the output of canned stats programs
like SPSS or SAS?
The short answer is that it is a lot of work to get R to put the results
in the format you want.
Bill
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